Two people have been charged with beating a 3-year-old boy who died in their care in a home just blocks from where a girl's brutal death in 2006 spurred calls for reform in the city's child-welfare agency.

It's not every day that both the U.S. government and advocates of free and open-source software align themselves with Microsoft. But a high-stakes patent case, set to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court , has attracted a slew of briefs supporting the Windows maker's stance in a complex battle with AT&T.

Nearly a thousand mourners packed a church to remember four siblings who drowned along with a fifth child as they tried to save a friend during a church picnic on the Meramec River in eastern Missouri.

So what if he only gets 12 miles per gallon around town. Tom Moyer's decision to buy a 2004 Dodge Ram pickup powered by a V-8 Hemi engine had nothing to do with fuel economy. It was all about that intoxicating feeling when he mashes down the accelerator.